A Lightweight Framework for Graphical Editors on Android Devices

Thomas Buchmann, Patrick Pezoldt

2014

Abstract

During the last few years, mobile devices and corresponding applications gain more and more attention. The number of users of mobile devices like phones or tablets has been increasing dramatically. Thus, software engineering for mobile applications becomes more and more important. While development frameworks for such devices provide rich support for sophisticated input mechanisms like gestures, etc., they lack support for graphical editors. In this paper, we present a lightweight framework which fills this gap. As a running example, we present editors for UML class diagrams and activity diagrams which have been built using our framework.

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Buchmann T. and Pezoldt P. (2014). A Lightweight Framework for Graphical Editors on Android Devices . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 81-89. DOI: 10.5220/0004984300810089


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={Thomas Buchmann and Patrick Pezoldt},
title={A Lightweight Framework for Graphical Editors on Android Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={81-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004984300810089},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - A Lightweight Framework for Graphical Editors on Android Devices
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Buchmann T.
AU - Pezoldt P.
PY - 2014
SP - 81
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0004984300810089